In retrospect one of my ex probably checked enough boxes in the DSM manual for sociopathy. This happened a long time ago while I was a junior resident. First met her at one of our morning rounds, her brother was a patient in our unit. We got to their bed and I was discussing his surgery with my consultant, meanwhile she was hyping me in front of her family (didn't even notice her during the operation). Mind you this was a frigging busy military hospital, so I was just on my maximum poker face all the time, plus dad seems top brass and somehow connected to my consultant. Consultant tells me she's a medical student in her final year and will be shadowing us - pretty rare stuff - in that particular hospital but whatever.
For the next one week my pager was on fire, I was always called to the brother's bedside for one complaint or random complication after another (nurses can be pretty incompetent but not that level of incompetence where I had to babysit a single patient). Oh, and she was there all the time, 'shadowing', assisting, just chatting... after her brother was discharged, we kept talking. There's probably no place more close-knit than a hospital so news spreads like wildfire. The 'news' is often who might be dating who. My consultant who was like a mentor first asked if the rumours of us dating were true, which I promptly denied but kind of wondered why he was asking in the first place. Anyways, we actually started dating but was low-key for both of us.
Until one night at a friend's party, everyone was drunk and chatting till I was half-asleep on my friend's counch, I overheard someone asking their friend who I was (it's like a ritual in medicine to know everyone's academic background) but the other girl just replied snarkily that's the guy who's dating his boss's (my consultant) ex-mistress. Man, did I jolt back fast from my half-stupor. This was life-changing stuff back then. Went back home soon afterward and asked my girl WTF else have you not told me, she said their affair was briefly before we met and she was desperate for an internship and was also trying to protect me. OK. But all the half-stories,dots that was our relationship started to connect.
I told her like it was time for a break but like they say bad shit doesn't just rains it pours. Again, never underestimate the rate at which apparently uninterested parties can be tuned into the workplace station. Shit spread all the way up... My consultant's wife first kicked him from the house but that wasn't the end for him because shit was just about to go deep too.
MPs came to my home, questioned me about this girl. During the interrogation, I discovered she was kicked out of med school (unbeknownst to her family), not one but two, while my consultant was trying to keep her as a side-chick and vouched for her to work at the hospital, after that, she threatened him to keep hum or else. He was deranked and deployed to a nowhere, I was transferred. The breakup was cut and dry for me but she still managed to make it messy. Oh, and the brother (the patient) finally revealed how she prolonged her stay at the hospital, with the help of the other nurses but that is another story. Personally, she wasn't the worst sociopath I've met but the only one who I didn't really figure out what motivated her.